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...after her Glitter album tanked, EMI had to pay Mariah Carey $28 million to extricate itself from the $80 million contract it had signed with her. In February 2002, EMI issued another profit warning. Record sales were clearly not recovering. A month later, it announced a restructuring plan to trim $175 million in costs. That process included cutting 1,800 jobs and getting out of the business of manufacturing and distributing CDs. "It was a tough time," Rose says. And it left employee morale shaky. EMI never flirted with bankruptcy, because its operating cash flow remained strong. Indeed...
...competitive threat to Barbie did not go unnoticed by the makeover masters at Mattel. In the face of years of criticism, Nurse Barbie had turned into Doctor Barbie, Stewardess Barbie into Astronaut Barbie, with a host of multicultural friends. There was even Barbie for President 2004 in a trim red pantsuit with a Stars-and-Stripes scarf...
...audio version of his memoir, "Dreams from My Father." But here's the killer: He doesn't really gain weight. People who've met with him note he's endlessly snacking on nuts or whatever is at hand, and yet his 6'2'' frame remains as trim as ever. "At one point in the campaign, he said if he doesn't work out, he loses weight,' says Robert Gibbs, Obama's spokesman. "And I was like 'you really shouldn't say that anymore...
...quotation marks. To veterans this may seem obvious, but it's the simplest way to trim millions of search results down to a manageable list...
Given to Houghton in June 1954 by the wife of John B. Stetson, the small book—approximately three by six inches—sports gold trim. Its binding features a greenish-gold hue as well as visible pores...